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Systems Error

We had a systems problem earlier today which caused spam to not get caught for some of our users. Because we’re in the middle of a comment spam torrent, this was probably very noticable to a lot of people, for which I’m very sorry.

The benefit of a centralized system like Akismet is everyone benefits from the collective intelligence of every user, we’re all unified in the fight together, but the point of vulnerability is always downtime.